A Cure for Writer's Block™

Her home lay behind her. And the aurora ahead. It would be cooler in the north, as it was in the far south. She could wear a sweater again. Be invisible again. Her body unscrutinized.

She leaned down the slope into the first valley of the first range of mountains. She took her first step towards solitude.

Three valleys later, a plain spread before her. She saw a river, so many trees, and... smoke.

She crept to the edge of the clearing, peered towards the village. Perhaps she wasn't the most original, the cleverest, but perhaps also she would feel...

Cindy yawned and stretched as she started her day. It was time to walk her pet octopus.

She pulled Ollie out of his protective shell, and they walked across the ocean floor.

"Good morning!" she called to Wally the Whale.

Suddenly, Wally decided to give Cindy and Ollie a ride by lifting them up, completely out of the ocean and depositing them on the sandy shore.

"Mom! Dad! Where have you been?"

"We've been right here. You took a nap."

"Yeah, I just had the craziest dream. I lived on the ocean floor, and I could breathe underwater and everything....

"This is who I am and I won't hide it."

The president said this as he removed his mask and revealed that he was, in fact, a reptile and a space alien.

"Now, I know what you're thinking. 'Oh no, all of the other aliens are invading and will take over the country.'" Not true! I am on a fact-finding trip to learn how to run an effective government.

"I know that I am going to have to resign because I wasn't born in this country. I will be heading back to my home planet with many ideas about how...

Lorenzo and his army waited outside the city gates, preparing to overthrow King Prime.

"How are we going to get in?" his general asked. "His guards outnumber us three to one."

"I'm thinking," Lorenzo said. "Okay, I've got it. Drop your weapons. We're going to be delivery guys."

"We're all going to be delivery guys?"

"Yeah," Lorenzo replied. "Everyone go back home and grab something you won't miss and put it in a box. Then we pile all of the boxes outside the gate at midnight. In the morning, all of the guards come out to open the boxes and...

Cupid said,
"Nobody knows or cares who I am."
"I'm just one of the pack."
Channeling Jan Brady, he added, "Everyone just cares about Rudolph, Rudolph, Rudolph!"
"Sure, he helped us out that ONE TIME, and now everyone can't stock singing about him."
"He wasn't even in 'The Night Before Christmas." It was On Dasher, On Dancer ... but Rudolph was still in the minors!'
Channeling Rodney Dangerfield, he added, "I get no respect at all. Even PRANCER had a movie made about him.
"I'm not even the most famous Cupid out there! It's that angel baby that shoots people...